'AlterNet
is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates
original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other
independent media sources. AlterNet’s aim is to inspire action and
advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social
justice, media, health care issues, and more.'

'Research into the Power Elite's
secretive Bilderberg Conferences - and related work...
Wouldn't it be satisfying if the energy being put in to help sort out
our misdirected world could turn things around? It would be comforting
to think so but realistically the banks, corporate media and other
transnational corporations, the merger maniacal 'dark side', are
extending their monopolistic control. The modern transnational
corporation is an immortal, soulless collusion of greed that reduces
everything it touches to a dollar value.'

'The
Center's books, studies and newsletters combine political science and
investigative reporting, unfettered by the usual time and space
constraints. Through its hard-earned reputation for "public service
journalism," the Center aims to produce high-quality, well-documented,
investigative research resulting in a better-informed citizenry that
demands a higher level of accountability from its government and
elected leaders. The Center also extends globally its style of watchdog
journalism in the public interest through the International Consortium
of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

'The Columbia Journalism Review is
recognized throughout the world as America's premiere media monitor-a
watchdog of the press in all its forms, from newspapers and magazines
to radio, television, and cable to the wire services and the Web.'

' It's been said
that dreams are our roadmaps to the future. If so, where are we headed?
Common Dreams is a national non-profit citizens' organization working
to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions
for America's future. Founded in 1997, we are committed to being on the
cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and
creating new models for internet activism.
We are funded exclusively by our members and supporters - no corporate
money, no advertising, no hidden agendas. With a small staff and a
network
of volunteers, we are proud of what we've accomplished on a shoestring
budget.'

'CEO is a European-based research and
campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social
justice and the environment
posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their
lobby
groups.'

'Corporate Watch is a radical
research and
publishing group, set up in late 1996 to support activism against large
corporations,
particularly multinationals. While rooted in the grassroots ecological
movement,
it now embraces a range of issues and campaigning approaches.'

'Corporate Watch is an online
magazine and
resource center designed to provide you - every day Internet users -
activists,
journalists, students, teachers and policy makers - with an array of
tools
that you can use to investigate and analyze corporate activity. We
are committed to exposing corporate greed by documenting the social,
political, economic and environmental impacts of these transnational
giants.'

'It is part of the American myth
that our major
media are objective and unbiased, a mainstay of democracy. We believe,
however, that the overwhelmingly dominant corporate media have become
merely the voice of an increasingly unilateral and controlled empire,
devoted to the indoctrination of the public in the interests of
corporate, industrial, military, and ruling powers. There has been,
throughout the post-World War II years, little analysis of this
phenomenon, little criticism of the myth of the impartial media.'

'Each issue features reflective
articles about politics in the U.S., incisive social and cultural
commentary, plus the most sophisticated coverage of European politics
you'll find anywhere outside of Europe. As the Utne Reader says,
"Politics, economics, and culture come together in every article,
giving the entire publication a balance most political journals lack." '

'For true democracy to work, people need easy access to independent, diverse sources of news and information.
But the last two decades have seen unprecedented corporate media
consolidation. The U.S. media was already fairly homogeneous in the
early 1980s: some fifty media conglomerates dominated all media
outlets, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines, music,
publishing and film. In the year 2000, just six corporations dominated
the U.S. media.
In addition, corporate media outlets in the U.S. are legally responsible to their shareholders to maximize profits.
Democracy Now! is funded entirely through contributions from listeners,
viewers, and foundations. We do not accept advertisers, corporate
underwriting, or government funding. This allows us to maintain our
independence.'

'Our subject areas are broad, our
analysis radical. In an authoritative and accessible style, we cover
issues both topical and general, and in doing so, open new areas of
debate on everything from science and technology to the impacts of the
globalisation of economic development on jobs, health and the
environment.'

'Ethical consumerism is all about
empowering the consumer. Often people feel powerless in the face of
global issues such as ozone depletion and third world exploitation but
ethical consumerism can be a driving force for change.'

'FAIR is the national media watch
group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and
censorship. We seek to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for
greater diversity in the
press. We scrutinize media practices that marginalize public interest,
minority
and dissenting viewpoints. FAIR
believes that independent, aggressive and critical media are essential
to
an informed democracy. But mainstream media are increasingly cozy with
the
economic and political powers they should be watchdogging. Mergers in
the
news industry have accelerated, further limiting the spectrum of
viewpoints
that have access to mass media. With U.S. media outlets overwhelmingly
owned
by for-profit conglomerates and supported by corporate advertisers,
independent
journalism is compromised.'

'Free Speech Internet Television is
the first audio/video hub on the web created and defined by the people
who use it.Establishment
media responds to the interests of stockholders and the perspectives of
the advertizers who fill its pages, airtime and coffers. Freespeech.org
attempts to respond to the interests of that majority of the people
whose voices are excluded or distorted in the corporate media.'

'INK is the trade association of
the radical and alternative press in the UK. As well as this website,
INK is involved
in a number of other projects that aim to raise awareness of the
alternative
media.'

'In These Times is an independent
political newsmagazine. Our purpose is to challenge the ideological
conformity of the corporate media, and to make sense of the news bites
and disembodied stories we are fed in the daily press and on
television.'

'The Independent Media Center is a
network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical,
objective, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love
and inspiration for people to who continue to work for a better world,
despite corporate media's
distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.'

'Created by the McInformation
Network, an
independent group of volunteers working from, at the last count, 22
countries on 4 continents. The
McInformation Network is dedicated to compiling and disseminating
factual,
accurate, up-to-date information - and encouraging debate - about the
workings,
policies and practices of the McDonald's Corporation and all they stand
for.
The Network also highlights opposition to McDonald's and other
transnational
companies.McDonald's
spends over $2 billion a year broadcasting their glossy image to the
world. This is a small space for alternatives to be heard.'

'The mission of our non-profit
society is
to transform our commercial media culture and direct it towards
ecological and social awareness. Our mass media, our business culture
constantly urges us to consume more and more, yet we know that our
planet cannot survive this onslaught, with regards to pollution,
biodiversity, resource depletion and climate change. This consumption
machine, image making factory is what we want to bring to a grinding
halt. We want to create a new media culture that does not have
commercialism as its heart and soul. The Media Foundation publishes
Adbusters magazine, created this site, and runs Powershift Advocacy
Agency.'

'MediaLens is our response to the
unwillingness, or inability, of the mainstream media to tell the truth
about the real causes and extent of many of the problems facing us,
such as human rights abuses, poverty, pollution and climate change.
Because much modern suffering is rooted in the unlimited greed of
corporate profit-maximising - in the subordination of people and planet
to profit - it seems to us to be a genuine tragedy that society has for
so long been forced
to rely on the corporate media for 'accurate' information.'

'Le
Monde diplomatique is the place you go when you want to know what’s
really happening. This is a major international paper that is truly
independent, that sees the world in fresh ways, that focuses on places
no other publications reach. We offer a clear, considered view of the
conflicting interests and complexities of a modern global world.'

' "The Nation will not be the organ of
any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest
effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a
really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence,
exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political
writing of the day is marred." -- from The Nation's founding prospectus,
1865.'

NI 'exists to report on issues of
world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust
relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and
poor nations; to debate
and campaign for the radical changes necessary if the basic material
and
spiritual needs of all are to be met.'

'OneWorld is dedicated to promoting human rights and
sustainable development by harnessing the democratic potential of the
Internet. Like
most of our readers, we are acutely aware of the injustices and
unnecessary
suffering in the world. Our aim is to bear witness to this injustice
and
to help people shed whatever light they can on it.Cruelty
and injustice flourish most freely in the dark - or in the ambiguous
twilight of 'open secrets'. Bringing issues into the light, we believe,
is a first step towards positive change.'

'Why
should a newspaper or broadcaster have an ombudsman?- To improve the quality of news reporting by
monitoring accuracy, fairness and balance. - To help his or her news provider to become more
accessible and accountable to readers or audience members and, thus, to
become
more credible. - To increase the awareness of its news
professionals about the public's concerns. - To save time for publishers and senior editors,
or broadcasters and news directors, by channeling complaints and other
inquiries to one responsible individual. - To resolve some complaints that might otherwise
be sent to attorneys and become costly lawsuits.'

'Positive
News is the world's first positive newspaper. We report on positive
developments from across the world and take a solution-focused
perspective on the challenges facing society.
We aim to inform, inspire and empower our readers, while helping create a more balanced and constructive media.'

'PINR is an
independent organization that utilizes open source intelligence to
provide conflict analysis services in the context of international
relations. PINR approaches a subject based upon the powers and
interests involved, leaving the moral judgments to the reader.'

'A nonprofit, public interest
organization funded by individuals and nonprofit foundations and
dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry.
The Center serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to
recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices.Whether
the issue is health, consumer safety, environmental preservation or
democracy and world peace, citizens today find themselves confronted by
a bewildering array of hired propagandists paid to convince the public
that junk food is nutritious, pollution is harmless, and that what's
good for big business and
big government is good for the rest of us.Unlike
advertising, public relations is often hard to recognize. "The best PR
is invisible," say industry insiders. To spin the news in favor of
their clients, PR firms specialize in setting up phony citizens' groups
and scientific "experts" who spin out contrived research using junk
science.'

"I believe that, for the rest of the
world contemporary America is an almost symbolic concentration of all
the good and
the bad of our civilization - ranging from the fantastic development of
science
and technology generating more welfare and the profundity of civil
liberty
and strength of democratic institutions, to the blind cult of perpetual
economic
growth and never-ending consumption, no matter how detrimental to the
environment,
the dictates of materialism, consumerism and advertising, the voiding
of
human uniqueness and its replacement by the uniformity of the
round-the-clock
noise of TV banality. Who
thinks today about future generations? Who is concerned about what
people
will eat, drink, breathe in one hundred years, where they will get
energy
when there are twice as many people living on this planet as today?
Only
an idealist, a dreamer, a genuinely spiritual person who, they say, is
not
modern enough.These
dreamers, who are often at the margin of society, will find their way
to
the place they belong, among the politicians, only if the very spirit
of
politics changes towards deeper responsibility for the world."
Václav
Havel, 1997

TI is 'a non-governmental
organisation dedicated
to increasing government accountability and curbing both international
and
national corruption. Our
movement has multiple concerns:humanitarian,
as corruption undermines and distorts development and leads to
increasing levels of human rights abuse;democratic,
as corruption undermines democracies and in particular the achievements
of many developing countries and countries in transition;ethical,
as corruption undermines a society's integrity; and practical, as
corruption distorts the operations of markets and deprives ordinary
people of the benefits which should flow from them.'

'... where I give you the true news so you don't have to invest any money in
buying newspapers that charge you for the privilege of keeping your
consciousness imprisoned in a tiny box of ignorance and lies.'

'A non-profit organisation set up since 1993 to carve a
space for alternative media within the mainstream. We distribute the
award winning Undercurrents alternative news video, containing features
on environmental and social justice direct action. Our aim is to
challenge the mainstreams definition of news and its elitist method of
news reporting. We also aim to
inspire and educate and empower people, from a broad and diverse range
of
communities, to take personal responsibility to bring about positive
social and environmental change. The organisation is dedicated to
creating a historical video archive of grassroots dissent.'

'ZNet intends to become a community of mutually supportive
actors in the struggle to make the world a better place for human
beings and other living things.''...a
wide range of specifically online articles and resources on current
struggle
and crises, in-depth sections focusing on matters of race, gender,
class,
international relations, ecology, youth, gay liberation, etc.,
alternative
media coverage, activism tools and coverage...'Includes
the Chomsky Archive .